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1.0
Feb 3, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Employee discount, the store sells some neat stuff at times.

Cons

Store management is usually young and inexperienced, quality of upper management is dependent entirely upon your district and can be okay as long as they like you or don't have other plans, health insurance for management is expensive and baseline, things change regularly in the store (sets often change from week to week and sometimes multiple times in the week in a complex way), company uses some questionable employment practices that ride the fine line between ethical and unethical, the corporate office is on a completely different plant from the stores, you don't work on commission but you have sales goals which make or break you, sales techniques and tactics are usually "whatever it takes" even if it involves bending the truth or excluding information, communication between staff, managers and other stores can be horrible, you must have super human time management skills and be willing to work like a dog or you will fail, potential for toxic work environment is very high, physically exhausting. It's retail but on the shadier, darker end of retail.

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Earthbound Trading Response
9y
I'd very much like to get additional information from you about your feedback. Knowing what store/district you worked in would be helpful to identify if we have stores that need additional training on our selling practices. Please contact myself (elizabeth@earthboundtrading.com) or your former district manager to discuss your experiences with us.

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Cons

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Earthbound Trading Response
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Thank you for your feedback! We wish you the best on your future endeavors.
3.0
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Cons

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